Explores user-built alternatives like Nitter and Invidious that reclaim the web from corporate platforms by offering ad-free, privacy-focused interfaces.
Explains how to use Placeholder and Initial Data in React Query to improve UX by avoiding loading spinners and pre-filling cache.
Explains a React UX quirk with controlled select elements and offers a solution using useEffect to ensure a valid default value.
Critique of the common but misleading UX pattern of showing '0 results' during data loading, with examples and a proposed technical solution.
A software engineer critiques 'unlikable' software features, using an airplane seat display's intrusive ads as an example, and argues for user-respectful design.
Article summarizes multiple studies showing how slow website performance increases user stress and frustration, impacting business metrics.
Explores the Doherty Threshold and the importance of sub-400ms response times for user engagement, referencing a TV show and technical concepts.
Guide to configuring Xcode 12's new 'Editor Tabs' for a better, more modern code editing experience similar to VS Code or Sublime Text.
Explores optimistic UI patterns that improve perceived performance by decoupling user feedback from network requests, using examples like instant cart updates.
A web developer argues that modern websites lack the creative soul of the early web, drawing a parallel to Star Wars's unique, nostalgic style.
A developer shares lessons on building engaging, detail-oriented ecommerce experiences from their time at ThinkGeek, focusing on user empathy and fun.
Explores the UX of skeleton screens for loading states, discussing their origins, benefits, and potential misuse in web development.
Explains why website performance should be treated as a permanent feature, not a one-time project, using analogies from elite sports and the YouTube Feather case study.
Analyzes Google's Core Web Vitals and other page speed metrics, explaining how to choose and correlate them with business outcomes.
Data-driven analysis showing how website speed directly impacts bounce rates, conversion rates, and revenue.
A freelance accessibility consultant discusses the unique advantages and challenges of being an outsider when advocating for web accessibility within organizations.
A developer discusses the importance of computer specs, criticizing cheap Windows machines with low RAM and advocating for better hardware.
Explores the 'IKEA Effect' cognitive bias in software development, where excessive attachment to one's own code can hinder progress and better solutions.
An introduction to A/B-testing as a method for data-driven product decisions, covering its basic principles and connection to incremental improvement.
The article argues for rebranding 'web performance' to more specific terms like 'site speed' to improve communication and business buy-in.
